OCTOPUS ATTACK.
A somewhat sensational incident took place in Evans’ Bay, Welling too, on Sunday. It appears that a boy of six, named Raymond Roberts, son of Mr Arthur Roberta, manager of the Victoria Laundry, accompanied by his mother and aunt (Mrs Jurisa) were spending the day in a little cove midway between the Patent Slip and Oriental Bay. The boy went in for a swim among the rock?, aurt was coming out of the water when he was observed by his p,unt to stagger. Thinking he had inertly s'ipped on tli9 rock the ladies did not take any notice of him until a shriek told them that something was amiss. Arriving on the spot they were ho;rifled to see that the boy hod been seized by a large octopus. Then began a thrilling fight for the boy’s life, the lidies puiliug thsir ntmoit and the octopus determided not to let go of his victim. Finally the boy was got out aud by that time several men had strived on the scene: One of them despatched the octopus with a oheathknife, aud on being meaunred on the beach it was found to bo nearly eight feet from tip to tip. Had the cctupus been able to got a firm grip on the rocks it ia doubtful if the boy could have been saved.
For contirmrGon of news see fourth pag*
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1917, Page 3
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